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{"title":"Calling into the void? German forest dieback 2.0 debate on Twitter. A case study to operationalize the analysis of discursive power in hybrid media systems","authors":"Philipp Mack ,&nbsp;Ida Wallin ,&nbsp;Mariella Susann Zwickel ,&nbsp;Jonas Pfistner ,&nbsp;Lena König ,&nbsp;Daniela Kleinschmit","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>Forest dieback 2.0</em> is the common term for describing climate change-related forest damages that sparked a nation-wide debate in Germany starting in 2018. Referring to the “first” <em>forest dieback</em> in the 1980s that inspired environmental movements and policy changes, raises questions concerning today's mobilization potential. Political communication has been profoundly transformed, mainly through the spread of digital media. To understand the current debate, it is thus crucial to consider the complex entanglements in hybrid media systems. We contribute to the operationalization of analyzing discursive power in hybrid media systems, through Twitter-actor-networks as well as tweet-hyperlink-networks, representing a communication space where older and newer media logics blend. Results suggest a scattered debate characterized by insulated communication networks of few central actors. Whereas forestry frames dominate <em>original tweets</em>, nature conservation frames are more likely to be <em>amplified</em> through retweets. Despite having largest number of followers, legacy media actors show low <em>centralities</em> in the Twitter-network. However, their influence must be seen in regard to the referred hyperlinks. Interactions between tweets and hyperlinks revealed different mechanisms for how frames are <em>introduced</em> and <em>amplified</em>. Besides mainly following the cleavage between forestry and nature conservationists, alternative frames instrumentalize forest damages to call for climate action or climate change skepticism. Despite these controversies and insulated communication, the <em>forest dieback 2.0</em> debate on Twitter does not appear to be <em>destructively</em> polarized. Nevertheless, further research needs to carefully examine the polarization potential. Due to the limited outreach, however, the Twitter debate largely seems like a calling into the void.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103447"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating carbon emissions and removals resulting from Russia's trade in harvested wood products","authors":"Roman V. Gordeev ,&nbsp;Anton I. Pyzhev","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Harvested wood products (HWP) are carbon reservoirs that remain underutilized in decarbonization policies due to the superficiality of carbon flux estimates in international trade in forest products. This paper focuses on the emissions and removals associated with Russia's foreign trade in HWP. For the first time, we provide estimates of these carbon fluxes for individual Russian regions for 2016–2020. Our findings indicate that the Siberian and North-Western regions are the primary contributors to carbon emissions from international trade. A comparison of estimates from the stock change approach (SCA), the production approach (PA), and the atmospheric flow approach (AFA) points to the latter as the most suitable for application in Russia given the significant proportion of exports in the sales of roundwood and sawn timber. Furthermore, we supplemented the estimates of carbon stock change from HWP trade using an approximation of rail and maritime trade routes for transporting timber from and to Russia. We found that the transportation emissions induced by overland and maritime HWP trade flows account for about 7 % of the total carbon balance from Russia's HWP trade. The largest volumes of emissions from HWP shipments are generated by the main exporters in North-Western Russia and Siberia, as well as regions that play a major role in freight handling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103444"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143261960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diversity of plant species used as firewood in indigenous colonized communities: An ethnobotanical study in East Misiones, Argentina","authors":"Mario Gabriel Sackser ,&nbsp;Lucas Rojas ,&nbsp;Héctor Alejandro Keller ,&nbsp;Norma Inés Hilgert","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103409","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103409","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use and consumption of firewood implies a detailed knowledge of species, and its materialisation translates into culturally mediated practices. This study analyses the link between users and the variety of species employed as firewood and the diversity of uses by settler and Guarani populations in Misiones, Argentina. Information was obtained through semi-structured interviews, free listings, participant observation, and botanical walks. The richness of species was assessed considering the species mentioned and their associated uses, and the usage categories of both cultural groups were compared. The cultural importance of the species was estimated based on the Consensus and Versatility of Use. In total, 84 species were recorded. The species with the highest Consensus of Use between Guarani and settlers were Holocalyx balansae and Parapiptadenia rigida, respectively. We identified six use categories, with cooking being the most cited in both groups. There were no reports for the “ritual/religious” category among the settlers. In both cultural groups, firewood is the main energy resource, but there are differences in the mode and object of use. Among the Guarani, firewood and fire represent fundamental elements in their way of life and culture beyond satisfying their material needs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103409"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types","authors":"Thomas Knoke ,&nbsp;Peter Biber ,&nbsp;Tobias Schula ,&nbsp;Jonathan Fibich ,&nbsp;Benjamin Gang","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103410","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103410","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasingly uncertain decision outcomes prevail in forest management and hamper choosing a single optimal management alternative. Confronting all management alternatives with multiple future scenarios and selecting an alternative minimising the regret under the worst scenario may provide suitable guidance under such uncertainty. Here, we search for future forested landscape compositions using regret minimisation for different objectives. We consider even-aged and uneven-aged stand types (called close-to-nature stand types) as management alternatives. Close-to-nature forest stand types supported the minimisation of regret for all objectives (represented by financial return, volume increment, C-storage, and two biodiversity indicators). However, close-to-nature stand types covered 18 % to 43 % of the future forest landscape in our study, which shows that even-aged stands are also necessary. For example, supporting biodiversity or multiple objectives simultaneously required large proportions of light-demanding and climate-change-tolerant Oak stands (even aged). Such Oak stands are difficult to achieve under shady conditions with limited canopy openings, which is typical for uneven-aged systems. Building on robust Pareto frontiers, we show a substantial trade-off between supporting biodiversity and maximising financial return but only a moderate trade-off between supporting biodiversity and maximising the C storage in a forest landscape. We suggest that such landscape-level trade-offs be quantified and discussed more intensively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103410"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Hands off our forests!” - The impact of the authoritarian rule on polish forest policy in the context of the European Green Deal","authors":"Krzysztof Niedziałkowski ,&nbsp;Agata Konczal ,&nbsp;Marcin Mielewczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, numerous initiatives and instruments from the European Union have aimed to address climate change. As a result, forest policies of member states—formally outside the EU's direct competencies—have come under increasing pressure from the EU. Member states' responses have varied, largely influenced by their unique socio-economic and political contexts regarding forest policies. This paper examines the impact of an authoritarian shift in Poland, observed from 2015 to 2023, on the responsiveness of domestic forest policy and key policy actors to European policy stimuli. To this end, we collected and analysed data on forest policy development through desk research and 30 semi-structured interviews with representatives of key stakeholder groups. We interpreted the results using the Advocacy Coalition Framework. Our findings suggest that the authoritarian context in Poland initially strengthened eurosceptic attitudes among dominant actors in the forest policy subsystem, hindering the implementation of new measures aimed at addressing climate change and biodiversity decline. However, autocratic policymaking gradually weakened the coherence of the dominant forest coalition, compromised the social legitimacy of foresters, and positioned forest-related issues within a clear party-political framework. Consequently, the major external shock to the subsystem—the 2023 general elections and the subsequent change in government—opened a window of opportunity for significant forest policy changes aligned with the European Green Deal.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103402"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender equality in Nordic forest research – A literature review","authors":"Pia Katila,&nbsp;Kristina Svels,&nbsp;Domna Tzemi","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article reviews and synthetises scientific research in the intersection of gender and the forest sector published during the past 20 years (2004–2023), focusing on the Nordic countries of Finland, Norway and Sweden. The systematic review of 88 scientific articles presents the state of the art of forest and gender-related research and examines how the main issue areas included in the eight key objectives of the European Union Gender Equality Strategy are addressed in the research and the related results. A large share of the reviewed research focused on non-industrial private forest owners, investigating the differences between male and female forest owners with respect to forest ownership, use and management and related objectives and values. A notable gap exists in the research on gender issues in decision making, policies and politics. While policy analyses from gender perspective are important for advancing gender equality and for avoiding unintended consequences, only two studies analysed forest policy from a gender perspective. Furthermore, a better understanding of gendered norms, culture and institutional stickiness that upholds gendered institutions and processes is needed. The politics of gender, i.e., gendered power relations, is a fundamental issue in advancing gender equality but it is not addressed in the reviewed research. The findings from the reviewed studies also emphasise the importance of moving beyond the female/male dichotomy and employing an intersectional approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103399"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impacts of COVID-19 on forestry migrant workers in the Southern United States","authors":"Manuja Jayasundara ,&nbsp;Carolina Berget ,&nbsp;Puneet Dwivedi","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of life and affected numerous sectors in the United States (US), including the forestry sector, which heavily depends on temporary migrant guest workers to perform roles that are difficult to fill with local labor. We conducted a qualitative case study focusing on a single labor contracting company that supplies workers for forestry projects in the US South to examine how the pandemic affected migrant workers.</div><div>The study involved a total of 25 interviews with participants, including migrant workers employed by the company, their employer, and other relevant stakeholders. Drawing on existing literature, a theoretical perspective was identified to explore the vulnerable nature of migrant workers and analyze the pandemic's effects on them.</div><div>While social isolation, a common characteristic of migrant work, helped reduce exposure to COVID-19, shared living and travel arrangements hindered effective isolation within crews. Additionally, the absence of health insurance compounded their vulnerability. Despite minimal disruptions to working hours, which allowed salaries and remittances to remain stable, temporary travel restrictions and visa delays caused delays in the arrival of H<img>2B workers. The pandemic exacerbated existing vulnerabilities, such as increased disposability and dependence on employers. However, some workers displayed agency by leaving when their earning potential was at risk, challenging assumptions about passive victimhood.</div><div>In response to these findings, future policies should prioritize improving living and working conditions, ensuring access to healthcare, streamlining visa processes, and strengthening worker protections to better prepare for disruptive events like the COVID-19 pandemic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103443"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social determinants of Chilean forestry workers: A challenge for sustainable industry development","authors":"Sandra Alvear-Vega,&nbsp;Nicolas Astudillo-Molina","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study aims to identify the social determinants (SD) that influence employment in Chile’'s forestry sector. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by examining the interaction between various social determinants and the likelihood of individuals working in the forestry sector.</div></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><div>To achieve this objective, data from the 2022 National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey, was used. 7700 people were included in this study. SDs were categorized into five groups according to the ESG criteria for social perspective: diversity; wage gap; employment benefits; workplace safety; and social programs. A probit model was used to determine average marginal effects. The model classified 92.7 % of the data accurately.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Individuals most likely to work in the forestry sector are predominantly male, with lower educational levels, aged between 35 and 65, under fixed-term contracts, belonging to the lowest income quintiles, without economic or food incentives, facing health and nutrition issues due to lack of funds, and lacking access to communication or the Internet.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Workers in the forestry industry exhibit high social vulnerability, far from the social determinants established in ESG standards.</div></div><div><h3>Value</h3><div>This study of the Chilean forestry industry highlights the social dimension of ESG based on secondary data, differing from those published by companies. Studies of this type contribute to generating greater transparency and trust among stakeholders, thus promoting the formulation of policies and business strategies that help improve employment conditions in the forestry sector within the context of persistent inequalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103439"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bioeconomy governance in the global South: State of the art and the way forward","authors":"Daniela Kleinschmit ,&nbsp;Alexandru Giurca ,&nbsp;Rosa Lehmann ,&nbsp;Fabricio Rodríguez ,&nbsp;Hariati Sinaga","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103403"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest diversity and the distribution of farm revenue - Empirical evidence from forest farms in Taiwan","authors":"Tzong-Haw Lee ,&nbsp;Yu-You Liou ,&nbsp;Hung-Hao Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103411","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103411","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest diversity is important for the increase in biodiversity since higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with a greater variety of tree species. Although a sizable body of literature has focused on the biodiversity of forest farms, little is known about the relationship between forest diversity and the economic performance of forest farms. This paper contributes to this research topic by investigating the relationship between forest diversity and forest revenue using a population-based dataset of all registered forest farms in Taiwan. In contrast to previous studies, we pay attention not only to the mean returns but also the variability in forest farm revenue. We apply the instrumental variable method with the average elevation of a farm's township as the instrument to correct for endogeneity bias. We find that forest diversity reduces the mean level and the associated dispersion of farm revenue. Moreover, the magnitude of the effect is more pronounced for the latter. By further looking at labor use on the forest farm, we find that farms that plant a greater variety of tree species require more male labor.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103411"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}